Life in Florida in the 1900s was often considered a simple and straightforward time. While it’s hard to truly get a feel for what life was like back then, with the help of photographs, we can certainly give it a shot! Anyone who wants to take a trip back to a simpler time in Florida, we have 11 historic photos that will show you what it was like. From photographs of what farm life was really about to see how citrus was delivered in the Florida Keys, check out these incredible pictures of life in Florida in the 1900s.

1. Farmworkers preparing banks for planting grass around one of ten fish rearing ponds in Welaka, Florida.
Photogrammar Carl Mydans
2. Produce being brought from boat to land to sell at the market in Mound Key in 1910.
State Library and Archives of Florida
3. A good, old-fashioned Florida fish fry was captured at Velda Dairy Farms in Tallahassee. This annual farm field day offered tons of activities for locals back in the early 1900s.
State Library and Archives of Florida
4. The simple life back on Duvall Street in Key West, Florida. Can you believe how much has changed?!
Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress
5. An ox powering a mile and syrup house, which is producing Bay Croft brand one syrup circa 1912.
State Library and Archives of Florida

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6. A candid shot of a train wreck on a bridge in Tampa in 1906.
State Library and Archives of Florida
7. Two women weighing and sorting through cabbages back in 1947 in Elkton, Florida.
State Library and Archives of Florida
8. A Penny-Farthing bicycle group captured back in Tallahassee in the early 1900s.
State Library and Archives of Florida
9. An interior show of the historic Tampa Theater captured back in 1938.
Flickr Florida Memory
10. Visitors enjoying a glass-bottom boat adventure at Paradise Park, Silver Springs in the 1950s.
Flickr Florida Memory
11. The Number 88 Jacksonville Electric Company streetcar on Monroe Street back in 1904.
Flickr Florida Memory

How about these photos of life in Florida in the 1900s?! Looks pretty surreal, doesn’t it!? Share with us your thoughts about these photos in the comments section! Or if you happen to want to keep this history lesson going, then check out these 27 photos of Key West in the 1930s that will surely astound you.

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